This volume is a step-by-step approach to improvisation in jazz, rock and pop music. Based on an easy music which can be practised together with a band on the play-along CD, each chapter comes with brief explanations as to which notes sound best when improvising and why. Solos by experienced musicians serve as examples for the player's own attempts at improvisation.The textbook can also be used by…

Par PIAZZOLLA ASTOR. Argentinean tango composer, Bandoneon player and arranger Astor Piazzolla ?s oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed ?nuevo tango?, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music and new instruments such as the Saxophone and Electric Guitar. The leaner, more fluid musical style with simpler, more continuous forms is exemplified perfectly in Li…

This book is designed to help saxophonists develop fluency in the jazz language by providing mainstream jazz vocabulary (swing/bop/post-bop) that nails the changes and lays great on the horn. Think of Hip Licks for Saxophone Volume 2 as a musical reference book, like a dictionary of great licks in all twelve keys, available when you need it. You can open the book to any page and just start pla…

Par PORTER COLE. One of the most enduring songwriters of all time, the music of Cole Porter has been transcribed for countless instruments over the years. It's impossible to imagine the world of Jazz without such sophisticated standards as Love For Sale and Night And Day , whilst modern film, television and advertising is overflowing with reworkings of Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye , You Do Something …

Par KEMBER JOHN. Presented in a variety of styles, these short pieces gieve each player an equal share of the melodic interest and are aimed at students of similar playing experience and standarts. The minimum of teacher assistance should be required. This series will prove a valuable addition to the repertoire as items of ensemble playing for concert performance as well as for friends of all ages…

The Best of Belwin Jazz: First Year Charts for Jazz Ensemble is a collection of twelve outstanding jazz ensemble arrangements for the young player. Each chart is written by experienced educational arrangers and composers in various styles and tempos: swing, Latin, ballad, waltz, holiday and pop.This collection is written for full instrumentation - five saxophones, three trumpets, three trombones, …

This matching folio features all 15 tracks from the 2016 2-disc release by the acclaimed revolutionary Ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro . The pieces in this album are presented in note-for-note transcriptions in standard notation and tab. Jake Shimabukuro: Live In Japan includes the songs: Me and Shirley T., Passport, Red-Eye, Ichigo Ichie, I'll Be There, Oama, Travels, Kawika, Hula Girl, Blue Rose…

What Else Can I Play? Alto Saxophone Grade 1 makes learning more fun with carefully selected and arranged supplementary repertoire for today's young player. Each piece offers suggestions and guidelines to bowing, dynamics and tempo together with technical tips, performance notes and a simple piano accompaniment.    / Instrumental Music, Methods & Tutors / Recueil / Saxophone Alto et Piano

'The idea of writing a 'Jazz Suite for cello solo' came out when I tried to imagine how it would have sounded like if one of the baroque masters (Gabrielli, Buxtehude, Bach) had lived in our time and wanted to write a suite of dances. I thought it would probably still keep some of the conventions of the traditional form, like maybe the use of a Prelude to establish the key and the alternation of s…

for Fingerstyle Guitar. Par DIVERS AUTEURS / WEISER GLENN. This is a collection of twenty-five solo fingerstyle guitar arrangements of famous early blues, centuries-old ballads, and traditional folk songs. If you want to learn how to play a melodic fingerstyle solo break between the verses of a song, then these arrangements are a great way to start. All songs include standard notation with fingeri…